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“Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair…”

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. (Proverbs 16:33) If the decision about the lot is the Lord’s, whose is the arrangement of our whole life?..

Many people gladly celebrate the birth of Christ at Christmas, only to ignore, shun, and reject Him the rest of the year. They don’t mind celebrating the birth of a baby, but they don’t want to hear about the Lord of lords. They sing of His nativity but brazenly reject His authority. They adore Him as an infant but will not pay homage to Him as the God-man. They can…

Habakkuk lived in a time of crisis. He was alert to the situation of his world and ready to give the message of God to his generation, but he did not receive straight and immediate answers from God.

Christ is the King, ruling over all things. Over His church He reigns by means of His Holy Spirit…

Having looked at Christ the Prophet let us look more closely at the second office… Christ the Priest

Our Reformed forebears, drawing on a perspective traceable all the way back to the fourth-century writer Eusebius of Caesarea, found it helpful to think about Christ as a Prophet, Priest, and King…

“For the love of Christ controls us…” (2 Cor 5:14)

Everyone who has trusted Jesus Christ for salvation is called to transformation of life. The more clearly we understand this, the better we will be able to cooperate with God’s work in our lives. As C.S. Lewis illustrates:

“…a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ” (Galatians 2:16)